Sustainability Partnerships
Our partnerships help us extend our impact in the world, share our solutions and expertise to work toward common environmental goals and connect us to collaborators across industries.
Global Commitments and Partnerships
Through partnerships with leading global non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we strengthen our understanding and our ability to impact global challenges facing our business, customers and communities.
Our Commitments:
- Open Letter to Accelerate Decarbonization
- Open Call to Accelerate Action on Water
- WaterEquity Global Access Fund IV
- United Nations Global Compact Forward Faster Initiative
- U.N. Global Compact signatory
- U.N. CEO Water Mandate signatory
- Founding member of the Water Resilience Coalition
- Founding member of the Alliance for Water Stewardship’s International Water Stewardship Standard
- U.N. Business Ambition for 1.5°C; Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) signatory
- RE100 member
Our Partnerships:
- Our partnership with Water.org helps enable access to sustainable water and improved sanitation in at-risk watersheds in India.
- In partnership with the World Environment Center, the U.N. CEO Water Mandate’s Water Resilience Coalition and The Pacific Institute, Ecolab launched the California Water Resilience Initiative, an ambitious collaborative effort to scale reduce, reuse and replenish projects in water-stressed California.
- In addition, through our membership in the California Water Action Collaborative, we are working to improve California’s water security along with a network of diverse stakeholders.
- We are funding two ambitious basin replenishment initiatives: the San Bartolomé project in Mexico’s Lerma-Chapala basin, near our Lerma plant, and another in the Upper Trinity River near our Garland, Texas, manufacturing facility.
- Collaborating with the Project WET Foundation, we co-created the Clean and Conserve Education Program focusing on water conservation and healthy hygiene education for youth around the globe.
- Our partnerships with The Nature Conservancy and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation help advance water conservation and stewardship initiatives in priority regions including China, Mexico and the United States. Through active participation in sustainability-related industry work groups, we share expertise and insights to influence standards, regulations and practices, and enhance sustainability leadership across industries.
- We work with the World Resources Institute Aqueduct Alliance to deliver best-in-class data and scientific methodologies for the Smart Water Navigator, a publicly available, online tool that helps companies achieve business resilience through smart water management.
Industry Involvement
Through active participation in sustainability-related industry work groups, we share expertise and insights to influence standards, regulations and practices, and enhance sustainability leadership across industries.
As a company, we are actively involved with sustainability-related work groups within industry associations including:
- International Organization for Standardization
- National Restaurant Association
- National Association for Environmental Management
- National Association of Manufacturers
- The Conference Board
- The Consumer Brands Association
- The Household & Commercial Products Association
- Steel Manufacturers Association
- United States Council for International Business
- World Travel and Tourism Council